nanis · HackerLangs

Because no one around me understood how to calculate false positive/false negative probabilities, I put together this calculator[1] in 2020.

[1]: https://www.covid2020.icu/false-positive-false-negative-simu...

nanis

há 9 diasdiscuss

> Governments need to wake up to this insane level of Evil

Governments are made up of people. People who have at best median level understanding of the things they are ruling about but great self-interest in following the biggest purse to which they can attach themselves.

nanis

há 2 mesesdiscuss

I was able to test the keystroke-doubling and that works well in Windows Terminal now. I am going to try out the formulas later.

nanis

há 2 mesesdiscuss

This looks good, but, I noticed:

> Supported Functions (v1) > SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, MIN, MAX, IF

I would recommend switching to numerically stable algorithms for adding numbers and taking their averages sooner rather than later.

Looking at the code[1], it looks like you are simply summing the numbers and dividing by count. If that is indeed the case, please switch to a stable average[2]. See also [3].

Additionally, I tried to test the executable[4] on Windows, but there is something wrong with input. Using Windows Terminal Version: 1.24.10921.0, characters are doubled on input. Regular Vim compiled using Visual C++ does not have this issue.

When I press `:`, I get `::` in the COMMAND line. Then, every key I press gets doubled. This means I cannot `:q!`. :-)

[1]: https://github.com/garritfra/cell/blob/99b0afc7a60a871b27452...

[2]: https://www.nu42.com/2015/03/how-you-average-numbers.html

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_for_calculating_var...

[4]: https://github.com/garritfra/cell/releases/tag/v0.2.0

nanis

há 2 mesesdiscuss

Might want to add /sarc just in case someone believes it :-)

nanis

há 4 mesesdiscuss

> Unfortunately, the rest of the interviews from that event have never seen the light of day - until now!

Not really -- It invites speculation as to why they were not published for 9 years. And, are the words spoken a decade ago still valid?

nanis

há 4 mesesdiscuss

> 2026-02-22 by GIMP Team

I am confused

> This interview took place on February 4th, 2017

nanis

há 7 mesesdiscuss

HTML + CSS works great for this kind of thing. Once you get the print scope correct, you really never need to think about it again.

nanis

ano passadodiscuss

This is why Firefox's changes are so frustrating[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43203096

nanis

há 3 anosdiscuss

Apart from the intra-company dynamics, there is also the fact that Google do not face the same kind of consumer driven market pressure as, say, Walmart.

I do recommend the excellent "Allocation under Dictatorship: Research in Stalin’s Archives"[1] where the greatest incentive individuals face in an organization have involve doing relatively better compared to other individuals in the organization without significant outside indicators of the right direction.

In that sense, Google is like a government behemoth. Most involved in its direction and functioning have incentives that are decoupled from whether the people who are touched by their "products" and "services" are happy with them.

[1]: https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/164/1/WRAP_Harrison_jel05.pdf

nanis

há 5 anosdiscuss

The question is not Brit-specific so to speak. Saying "based off of" to mean "based on" and "based out of" to mean "based in" etc started relatively recently in the U.S. In the NYC area, people also say "waiting on line" instead of "in line" which grates me to this day, but at least I could find that usage special-case in a foot thick Webster dictionary back when I first encountered.

I believe the "based off of" and "based out of" were popularized among the hipster brogrammers of early 21st century, but I might be wrong.

I am not a native speaker.

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